The Department of Family Medicine聽in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is now offering two courses on Indigenous Health:
FMED 506: Indigenous Perspectives Decolonizing Health Research (3 credits)聽鈥� Fall 2021 by Alex McComber
This graduate foundation course explores Indigenous-grounded health promotion in primary health care, with the goal to foster more meaningful patient and community engagement in research and practice. This course will explore the nature of Indigenous Peoples' ways of understanding the world and cultural ways of knowing and doing, with focus on health and wellness. It will review the Canadian history of colonization and assimilation, and the outcomes and impacts through the lens of Indigenous Peoples. The course will review the powershift as Indigenous Peoples, scholars and communities participate, share and control the health and wellness clinical and research agenda.
FMED 527: Inuit Health in the Canadian Context (1 credit) 鈥� Winter 2022 by Richard Budgell
The course will explore the histories, perspectives and contemporary realities of Inuit health in the four regions of Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland) with a particular focus on the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. The Inuit of Nunavik are the second-largest Inuit community in Canada, with a population of 11,000 living in 14 communities. Nunavik is part of the 不良研究所 Re虂seau universitaire inte虂gre虂 de sante虂 et services sociaux. That gives 不良研究所鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences a unique rationale, and opportunity, to offer, under the sponsorship of Family Medicine, a course on Inuit health in the Canadian context.
